Kids Corner
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Why Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
Is nature a mathematician? Patterns and geometry are everywhere. But nature seems to have a particular thing for the number…
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Why Do We Cook?
People around the world celebrate many different holidays for many different reasons. But no matter how we celebrate, most of…
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How to make your own water filter?
Water is essential to survival. It is important for water to be pure and fresh. Do you know that 80% of diseases are…
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Why elephants never forget
It’s a common saying that elephants never forget, but these magnificent animals are more than giant walking hard drives. The…
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The evolution of the human eye –
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch…
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The sonic boom problem
Humans have been fascinated with speed for ages. The history of human progress is one of ever-increasing velocity, and one…
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How do your kidneys work?
It’s a hot day, and you’ve just downed several glasses of water, one after the other. Behind the sudden urge…
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The Akune brothers: Siblings on opposite sides of war
There are many stories that can be told about World War II, from the tragic to the inspring. But perhaps…
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How misused modifiers can hurt your writing
This just in: “Thief robs town with world’s largest chocolate bunny.” Wait, so are we talking about this, or this?…
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The race to sequence the human genome
Packed inside every cell in your body is a set of genetic instructions, 3.2 billion base pairs long. Deciphering these…
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